Weston-under-Wetherley / Weston subter Witherley / Weatherley / Westone

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BH01: human figure - head

Scene Description: one of originally four (only three left) right at the underbowl chamfer; this one on the northeast side of the font; a tonsured monk's head?

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 September 2010 by jmc4 [www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@5282763461/in/photostream/] [accessed 11 February 2015]

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BH02: human figure - head

Scene Description: this one, on the northwest side of the font is now broken off and missing

BH03: human figure - head

Scene Description: one of originally four (only three left) right at the underbowl chamfer; this one on the southwest side of the font; a merchant's head? Negroid features?

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BH04: human figure - head

Scene Description: one of originally four (only three left) right at the underbowl chamfer; this one on the southeast side of the font; a merchant's head? Negroid features? similar to the one on the southwest side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 September 2010 by jmc4 [www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@5282763453/in/photostream/] [accessed 11 February 2015]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: with basin of the old font in the foreground

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view of font

Image Source: engraving in Paley (1844: unpaged)

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view of font

Image Source: drawing in the Parish web site [www.westonunderwetherley.parishcouncil.net/userfiles/images/church font ws.jpg] [accessed 11 February 2015]

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view of font - northeast side

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view of font - southwest side

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view of font in context

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INFORMATION

FontID: 03446WES

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Michael

Church Patron Saints: St. Michael

Church Location: Rugby Road [aka B4453], Weston-under-Wetherley, Warwickshire, CV33 9BY

Country Name: England

Location: Warwickshire, West Midlands

Directions to Site: Located on the B4453, 6 km NE of Leamington Spa, 10 kms NW of Warwick [NB: spelling varies from Westone (in Domesday), to Witherley (in Paley), Weatherley (in Bond) and Wetherley, current use]

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Coventry

Historical Region: Hundred of Stoneleigh [in Domesday] -- Hundred of Knightlow

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave

Century and Period: 14th century (early?), Decorated

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are three entries for Weston-under-Wetherley [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SP3669/weston-under-wetherley/] [accessed 11 February 2015], but neither mentions cleric or church in it. A font here is described and illustrated in Paley (1844). Described in Cox-Harvey (1907: 224) as a baptismal font of the Decorated period ornamented with human heads at the chamfer; "both bowl and shaft are eight sided, but not of equal octagonal form; four of the sides are wide and turn inwards, whilst the other four are narrow and flat. The lower part of the bowl is moulded, and is supported by four projecting heads." The plants of the basin and stem of the base are cruciform, with inward-curving rather than angular arms [the basin is de facto octagonal, with the four larger sides conceve, while the shorter ones are straight-cut]. The lower base becomes square and there is an octagonal plinth. It is mostly plain except for the four heads which protrude from the lower part of the basin at 90-degree angles of each other, and the mouldings which connect them. Bond (1908: 233, 240) refers to these lower basin protruding heads as "a characteristic design in Warwickshire [...] found sporadically up and down the Midlands". The font is illustrated in 'Churches of Warwickshire' (1847). The Victoria County History [Warwick, vol. 6, 1951) notes: "There is evidence of a 12th-century church in the north and south walls of the chancel, consisting of the eastern halves of two semicircularheaded blocked windows. Early in the 13th century the church was almost entirely rebuilt; the tower was built early in the 14th century, except the top stage, added late in the 14th century; a north chapel was built in the 16th century, and in modern times a vestry and south porch. [...] The font, standing at the west end of the nave, is of unusual form and has eight sides, those towards the cardinal points being concave and the others plain. At the bottom of the latter there are head corbels on three sides; the fourth is missing. The stem has the same shape as the basin and its sides die out on a deep splay to a low square pedestal. Internally the basin, which is lined with lead, follows the shape of the outside and is curved at the bottom. It probably dates from the early 14th century, one of the head corbels being of a knight with the coiffe de mailles. It has a modern oak cover and step."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.320627, -1.473259

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 19′ 14.26″ N, 1° 28′ 23.73″ W

UTM: 30U 604058 5797798

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, unknown

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: octagonal

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

Rim Thickness: 7.5 cm*

Diameter (inside rim): 57.5 cm*

Diameter (includes rim): 72.5 cm*

Basin Total Height: 40 cm**

Height of Base: 55 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 95 cm*

Notes on Measurements: *Paley (1844: unpaged). **[given by Paley as "Depth of bowl 16 in.", which usually refers to the height of the basin, not the depth of the interior]]

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2015-02-11 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908

Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907

Nichols, Ann Eljenholm, Seeable Signs: The Iconography of the Seven Sacraments 1350-1544, Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1994

Paley, Frederick Apthorp, Illustrations of Baptismal Fonts, London, UK: John van Voorst, 1844

Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928